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| Date: | 23 Apr 1994 |
| Recorder(s): | GL Maggs L Guarino |
| Collector(s): | GL Maggs 1046 |
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| Location: | Caprivi: East Caprivi: (Site 6) 13,5 km from the turn-off to Lianshulu (D3511) from the main tarred road between Katima- Kongola (B8). |
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| Planted code: | Not planted |
| Country: | Namibia (Caprivi Strip) |
| Quarter Degree Square: | 1723C4 |
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| Altitude (metres): | 980 |
| Notes: | Creeper; Notes: Prostrate, annual creeper. Great variation in leaves from deeply lobed to almost unlobed. Petals golden yellow. Fruits vary from pale green to dark green banded. Flesh pale green, not bitter but somewhat mealy. Sikululu (Lozi) is flesh made into porridge by local people. Seeds dispersed by elephants. Growing in mulapo grassland on road verge. Soil pH 8. |
| Latitude, Longitude: | -17.920280,23.337500 |
| Location Accuracy Code: | 5 |
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